A Bumper Back To School Book Special

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Hello High Lowers! Sharpen your pencils, the heat wave is over and a new school term is upon us. We cover some of the news stories of the summer plus our favourite bonkers surveys, including a shockingly disgusting underpants poll and the best place to find love (Oxford, apparently). Plus, it's Pandora's favourite prize of the year - no, not the Pulitzer, not even the Nobel - it's Rear of the Year.

Reccs

Euphoria on Sky

Game Face on Channel 4

Scarlett Curtis on Russell Brand’s Under The Skin

Giles Coren on novel acknowledgements

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pretentious-bores-make-me-want-to-burn-every-book-7lh5cv8cn

Indistractable, by Nir Eyal

Cribsheet, by Emily Ostler

We Need New Stories, by Nesrine Malik

Such A Fun Age, by Kiley Reid

The Most Fun We Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo

Twas The Night Before Christmas, by Adam Kay

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

Expectations, by Anna Hope

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Calypso by David Sedaris

Theft by Luke Brown

The New Me by Halle Butler

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

All At Sea by Decca Aikenhead

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

The Confession by Jessie Burton

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highloat, the wiki current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you by
0:19.3	Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes and a hearty farewell to Summer.
0:23.9	Farewell Summer?
0:24.9	I think everyone's ready for it now aren't they?
0:26.4	I was certainly very ready for a change of season last week.
0:30.2	The heat waves have been fun as has the pub but I'm ready for some early nights and some early mornings and just lots of soup.
0:37.3	I'm ready for the soup days.
0:38.9	God it was a hot one.
0:40.6	It was all, it was now am I going to say that it was almost too hot?
0:43.9	It was a little bit too hot.
0:45.4	The primary sensation I felt in the last month as I sat at my desk,
0:49.8	I was accidentally panicking about my book deadline which I hear is a distinctly un-unique experience.
0:56.5	What a rivulets of sweat traversing the undercarriage of my boobs through to the left of my ribcage and then snaking back along my stomach.
1:06.0	We've been reading a lot on our break so this is going to be a bumper book special with lots of really recommendations.
1:11.4	So if you don't like books, so is not so.
1:14.0	We also have some breaking news courtesy of...
1:17.0	Ironic if you haven't learnt by now.
1:18.5	Every time Dolly says we have some breaking news, it's broken with a damp squib.
1:24.7	Ages ago, public hurts to see of all the pointless surveys that have been flooding our inboxes in August with no outfit to change.
1:33.2	Every PR in Britain is quaking about where these stats are going to go if not the highlight.
1:38.2	Shocking new stats such as the best British destination for finding love has been announced.
1:44.7	2000 Brits, I only say that word when I'm reading this service.
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